Professor Kate Henne is the Director of RegNet, the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance, and leads the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech). She also serves on the leadership team of the ANU Integrated AI Network and is a board member of the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute. Before commencing as RegNet’s Director, she held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, where she was a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Her research is concerned with how science and technology contribute to the governance of health, public safety, and social welfare. Her publications span diverse areas such as automated decision-making, biomedicine, data governance, gender-based regulation, human enhancement and well-being, and surveillance. Her work has been supported by several organisations, including the Australian Research Council, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Health and Medical Research Council, National Science Foundation, Ontario Research Fund, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
